Tag: Spider-Man

How does one go about making a Venom movie without even mentioning the name Spider-Man? This was the challenge Sony Pictures set for the three screenwriters that were tasked to salvage a character the studio had previously ruined in the third Raimi Spider-Man movie; and just to make it a little tougher, Venom’s first solo…

Comic book fans were all excited when Marvel Studios and Sony worked out a deal that would allow Spider-Man to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his cameo in Captain America: Civil War was certainly a highlight of that film, yet how well Sony and Marvel could work together to make a solo Spider-Man movie…

Due to his amazing powers Spider-Man was mostly relegated to the pages of the comics or with the occasional foray into animation, web-swinging and wall-crawling was not something easily pulled off in live action, and so aside from his silent appearances on The Electric Company he seemed destined to remain in two dimensions.

I was not a fan of the comic series Marvel’s Civil War, it took characters I had read and loved for decades and twisted them in directions I did not like, but hey that’s their sandbox and one can’t be too pissy about such things, but it was that comic run that made me at…

Everyone’s Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man was created back in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and with decades of incredible adventures under his belt it’s not surprising that he became the flagship character for Marvel Comics, but how tumultuous was his career and how has he fared in other mediums outside the four colour pages? Today we…